Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1959-03-01 / 3. szám
8 FRATERNITY of Christ, but of the wiles of the devil. I say, it is not one—because you are Lutherans, Zwing- lians, Calvinists, Flaccianists, Majorists, Anabaptists ; goodness knows what. Of one thing only am I sure—I don’t know what you are going to be next. Some Lutherans amongst you are anti-Calvinist; some Calvinists amongst you are anti-Lutherans. God did not allow His Son’s perfectly woven garment to be torn in pieces by His executioners. How much less then will He allow His Bi’ide to be rent in pieces . . . Saint Paul, too, writes that the Church is one Body. Thus where unity is not to be found, there you need not look for the true Holy Mother Church.” The Activities of the Jesuits Just as everywhere else in Europe, it is the name of the Jesuits that we associate with the manner in which the Roman Church in Hungary recovered its ground. The Jesuit order laid hands on the keenest and most intelligent youth they could find in the 16th and 17th centuries, and trained them with the direct aim of winning back to Rome those that had been lost to the Church. The Jesuits, moreover, were clever to learn from their opponents. For example, they made use of popular preaching, as it had been developed by the reformers; were earnest in the spiritual care of individuals; took pains to establish schools, and made full use of the printing press as a means of disseminating their views. Wherever the Jesuits appeared, the Protestant cause was shaken. Catholics looked to them everywhere with gratitude as the great protagonists of the Church of Rome, and did what they could to strengthen their order. Their opponents, on the other hand, look back on their hurtful activities, angry and bitter at the methods they used against the Protestant Church. (To be continued)
